On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, at 16:21, Dan Purgert wrote: > > Later, once you understand how a local network works, you can come > > up with a theme. Or some convention that lets you identify the > > computer by its name. The name that you have chosen.
Machine-naming makes sense to me - having done that with a variety of (blush) Windows machines in my LAN. I've toyed with versions of Linux, and used a few live-CD ones over the years, and I'm fairly sure that as well as being asked to supply a hostname I've also been asked to supply a domain value. What, on a home LAN, is that used for? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.